Winter Cheer

 

Happy Monday Peeps!!

Over at  The Paper Players 

this week they have a Clean and Simple challenge with Winter theme.

I already had this pretty image stamped onto the die cut piece.

I just colored it up and added it to my base with some dimesionals.

I kinda like how it hangs over the edge, adds a bit more visual interest.

The sentiment is from the Spirited Snowman set and I stamped with Versmark on 

a piece of real red cards stock.

I then embossed with white embossing powder.

 

Thanks for sopping by today! 

Vicki

Joy

Happy Wednesday Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made a couple of weeks ago.

I used a favorite retired set called A Beautiful Season.

Linking my card to the challenge this week at The Card Concept.

Homestyle Holiday

I love doing the vintage look on my cards, not always, 

but this set lends itself nicely to this technique.

 

I stamped with Black Stazon ink and colored with my ink pads and water brush. 

The sentiment is from the Hearts Come Home stamp set.

I added some twine, rusty jingle bells and tinsel twine for my embellishments.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

Fresly Made Sketches......'Tis the Season

Happy Sunday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using he sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches.

I went with a Christmas theme again, trying to get those cards done.

I used a favorite image from the Beautiful Season stamp set. I stamped wih stazon ink and colored with my aqua painter and ink pads.

I then fussy cut it out and set it aside to make the rest of the card.

The base of the card is Crumb Cake cardstock and then I added I then used a piece of DSP from the Wood textures pack. I added some jute twine around the middle.

I added a piece of DSP to the side and added my cut out image to the base with some dimensionals.

The sentiment comes from an old MFT set. I finished the card up with some rhinestones and a jute bow. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

A Merry Christmas

Hello Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the color challenge this week on SplitcoastStampers.

Some fun colors this week:

Gold, Wild Wasabi and Daffodil Delight, not your traditional colors for a Christmas card, but I do like the results. I started with a favorite stamp set, Stampin Up's A Beautiful Season, retired. 

I stamped with black stazon onto some confetti cream card stock. I then colored with my aqua painter and ink pads, I used wild wasabi, daffodil delight and basic gray. I used some ink from my gold encore pad to color the holly berries, but then in the end I covered them with some small gold pearls. I thought the gold ink looked very dull and I liked the gold pearls better.

I stamped a second image and colored the leaves to cut out and pop up, the dessert option on this challenge was to fussy cut something, so I did. 

I used some crumb cake ink to shade my image and I used my white gel pen to add some lines to the holly leaves. The sentiment comes from the Bells and Boughs set and I used some Daffodil Delight seam binding ribbon to make my bow and added a very vanilla button to the center.

The DSP on here is from a retired pack, Woodland Walk. 

The base of the card is the same Confetti Cream as the image is stamped on and I used some gold foil paper to mat my image and DSP.

I finished up by doing a bit of doodling around the image with my black marker.

Hope you enjoyed this one!

Vicki

Color Challenge.......Merry Christmas Chickadee

Happy Tuesday Peeps!

So sorry for the lack of posting, I am just not stamping much. I attribute that to not enjoying alot of my stamps. You all know that I am a loyal Stampin' Up girl, but to be honest the last few catalogs do not have much to my liking. I am not really a "trendy" stamper and I am having a hard time fitting my style into the SU mold lately. Makes me sad to say and maybe I shouldn't here on my blog but it is what it is.

Anyway onto this lovely card, I DO like this one, but it is done with mostly retired items, the stamp set, Beautiful Season retired last year, I will always keep this one, it is so pretty and makes pretty cards. The DSP on here is from the retired, Deck the Halls pack, I love this pack and the vintage feel of it.

The colors come from the Splitcoast Color Challenge:

When I saw these colors I knew right away I wanted to use this set. 

The sentiment is from the Petite Pairs stamp set. I used some Crumb Cake taffeta ribbon to make my loopy bow.  I added some basic pearls and an antique brad to the middle of the bow. The image is die cut with the Window Frame Dies.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

P.S. I was made aware recently that there was a problem with some of my e-mails, so if you e-mailed me and I did not reply, chances are I did not receive it, so please forgive me and resend. All issues have been resolved, I hope. 

Merry Mondays.......Merry Christmas

Merry Monday Peeps!!

So happy to be back with a card for the Merry Monday Challenges, I took a couple of weeks off cos I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. Things are still hectic but I am trying to make more time for crafting, I do miss it when I don't get to make a card for several days.

This week Lesley at Always playing with Paper has a great color challenge for us:

I reached for one of my favorite sets, Stampin Up's "Beautiful Season". You can just never go wrong with this set in my opinion, it is a must have and a never get rid of set.

I stamped the bird and holly image onto some confetti cream card stock with black stazon and colored with my aqua painter and ink pads.

The base if the card is the same confetti card stock and then the next layer is cherry cobbler and then the DSP is from a retired pack. I added an embossed flag piece with the always artichoke 

The main image is cut out and matted using my circle and scallop circle nesties. I added it to the base with dimensionals. I then made a triple bow with some cherry cobbler seam binding ribbon and added a antique brad to the middle. The sentiment is from the "Open Sleigh" stamp set.

The rest of the Merry Makers have some awesome samples for your inspiration:

Allisa Chilton
Bonnie Klass

LeAnne Pugliese

Nina Forsyth

Wendy Aungst

Narelle Farrugia

Sue Joyce
Sherry Eckblad
Margaret Moody 

I hope you can find some time to play along with us, 

Thanks for stopping by today and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Merry Monday......Season's Greetings

I woke up yesterday with Christmas on the brain and I wanted to make a card with one of my favorite sets. 

This is Stampin Up's Beautiful Season,  and besides Greeting Card Kids this would be an all time favorite of mine.

Don't you love that pretty image with the holly, berries and chickadee?

I made this card using this week's Merry Monday Challenge.

I started my card with a base of Crumb Cake card stock and then followed that with some Cherry Cobbler card stock and the DSP on here is from the Festival of Prints pack. I love the colors in this pack, I hope SU makes more of this size packs in the future!!

The sentiment on here is from the retired Four Holidays set.

I had fun making this one and I also started a new project a 3-D Christmas ornament made with my favorite non SU Holiday paper, I will be showing you that sometime next month and keep an eye out for a couple of exciting announcements coming up!!

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

The Paper Players........Christmas

Happy Wednesday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the challenge this week on The Paper Players Blog.

This week it is a Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge:

I went with the top line, Christmas, Sparkle/Bling and Ribbon.

I used a favorite Stampin Up set called "A Beautiful Season" I love this set and love to color this pretty bird/holly image.

I stamped the image onto a piece of confetti cream cardstock that I had cut out with the top note die. 

I colored with my water brush and ink pads, using cherry cobbler for the berries, old olive for the heaves and crumb cake and basic gray on the bird.

For my sparkle/bling I used some of the silver glimmer paper from Stampin Up. I used some small scraps and just cut the edges of the top note and tucked it under the sides of the main piece. I don't want to waste that glimmer paper.... wink, wink!

I just got a package of the Stampin Up Tulle Ribbon and wanted to use it on my card. I was so surprised with this wonderful tulle ribbon, so easy to work with! Love it and will be getting the other colors, I had only ordered the cherry cobbler at first to play with to see if I liked it.

The sentiment is from the same set and stamped at the bottom with black stazon. I cut off one edge of the top note and lined it up with the edge of my card.

The DSP on here is from the Festival of Prints pack.

I finished it off with three basic pearls in the top corner! 

Thanks for stopping by today and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Merry Monday

Happy Monday Peeps, or should I say "Merry Monday".

A few weeks back I got an e-mail from Lesley from Always Playing with Paper, asking if I would like to be the Featured Designer for the month of June on her "Merry Monday Challenges". I was thrilled to join along with her and her fabulous designers!

The idea behind the Merry Monday Challenges are to get a head start on your Christmas cards, so why not pull out you Christmas card making supplies, turn the AC down really low and put on some Christmas songs and join us?

Here is the sketch for this week:

I pulled out my favorite Christmas set from last year, Stampin' Up's  "Beautiful Season"

I love that chickadee on the holly branch, so pretty, I LOVE to watercolor this image!

I used some confetti cream card stock for my main image panel and colored using my aqua painter and ink pads.

I added some very vanilla seam binding ribbon and an antique brad on the bow. The sentiment is from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set.

Be sure and head on over to Lesley's blog to see what the others made using this sketch. 

Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

OCC....Home for the Holidays

Happy Saturday Peeps!!! 

It is time for another Our Creative Corner Challenge. 

This week our hostess is the fabulous Sharon Wheet and she has a fun Christmas challenge for us. Here it is in her own words:

'Home for the Holidays' - use the scenes in your own home for your inspiration.  You can use the decorations on your Christmas tree, a center piece from your dining table, the winter wonderland seen from your front door, or the wreath on your front door.  What ever your inspiration, please share that with us, in your paper craft item.  You can create a card, a layout, a 3-D item, an altered item, whatever your paper crafting heart desires.  The only other requirement - show us some glimmer/sparkle!

Now that I see the challenge theme, I think I forgot the sparkle!  But let's just say my sparkle is the gold pearls. 

I took inspiration for my card from our Christmas tree. Each year our tree is a bit different, we like to change it up and do themes occasionally. This year we used burlap to make garland and added pine cones and red wood bead garland along with other rustic decorations of stars, sleds, snowmen and bells.

I thought I would incorporate some of the burlap that was left over from the homemade garland. I like the rustic feel of this card. 

The base of the card is Early Espresso and then I used some crumb cake and the DSP is from the Letters to Santa paper pack. I added the strip of burlap down the side and then some cherry cobbler seam binding on top of it. I made a double loop bow and added a antique brad to the center.

The main image is from my favorite Christmas set this year, the Stampin Up Beautiful Season. I stamped this image onto some confetti cream card stock and colored with my aqua painter and ink pads. the sentiment is from the Petite Pairs stamp set. 

I added the panel to the card on a slight angle with some dimesionals. 

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog 

to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun challenge.

I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Edited to add: My card is so very similar to THIS card by the fabulously talented Tenaele Williams, I don't recall seeing her card before making mine but I might have and it sunk into my sub-conscious, either way, Thanks so much Tenaele for sharing your beautiful work and inspiring so many!

Merry Christmas

Happy Thursday Peeps! 

So sorry for the lack of posts this week, it is a busy time here and I m afraid the ol blog is being a bit neglected.

I do have a card to share with you today, this card is made with a favorite stamp set, a new one this year in the Stampi' Up catalog called  "Beautiful Season". I colored up a few of these images for Christmas cards and this is one of them. I used the Stampin Up DSP called "Letters to Santa" love the papers in this package and I really don't have much of it left at all. 

I used early esporesso card stock for the base and then I followed that up with some confetti cream card stock and then the DSP. 

The image is stamped onto the cream card stock with black stazon ink. I used my aqua painter and ink pads to color the image. the sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. I added some very vanilla satin ribbon and tied a pretty bow. 

The image is die cut with my oval nesties and then mounted onto some old olive card stock that I embossed with the square lattice EF.  I rounded the corners and matted with more early espresso card stock.

Well, that is all from me for today, I do have another card to share with you tomorrow and of course on Saturday I will be here with my OCC challenge card. 

Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

SSSC146.....Merry

Good Morning Peeps!!!

It is Sunday which means it's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Here is the SWEET sketch Karen has for us this week:

Another great sketch! I loved this one and will file it away to use again!
I started the card with a base of  Riding Hood Red card stock. I followed that up with some crumb cake card stock and the DSP I used is from the Stampin Up "Letters to Santa" paper pack.

I had a totally different idea in mind when I sat down to make this card. I had a different stamp set out and stamped a completely different image than the one I ended up with, but the other just didn't  work and you gotta know when to just let it go and change to something you know works!  I know I have used this image alot this season but it is a fave and makes really nice cards.
I stamped the image which is from the Stampin Up "Beautiful Season" stamp set onto some confetti cream card stock with black stazon and colored with my aqua painter and ink pads. I used old olive, basic gray, riding hood red, so saffron, soft suede and bashful blue.

I added some very vanilla satin ribbon on the side and tied a bow. The little sentiment tag is from the "Tiny Tags stamp set. I added a couple of basic pearls and it is done.

OCC...It's Time To Decorate Challenge

Happy Saturday Peeps!!! 

It is time for another Our Creative Corner Challenge. 

This week our hostess is the fabulous Wendy Jansen and she has another fun challenge for us.

This is her challenge for us this week:

Haul out the Holly...It's time to Decorate! Challenge.  

The challenge this week is to take this very basic sketch, use it, and "decorate" it!

You all know I LOVE a sketch challenge and this one is so fun!

I wanted to make some more of the little poinsettias, like the one I did earlier on one of my Blog Hop Projects. I used the Build A Blossom punch to make the poinsettias, using the smallest leaf on the punch. I punched out twelve for each flower and used 6 on the bottom and 6 on the top.

The sentiment on here comes from the Beautiful Season stamp set.  I stamped it with black stazon onto some Confetti Cream card stock. I used my circle and scallop circle nesties to cut out the main panel.

The base of the card is Cherry Cobbler card stock and then the next layer is Crumb Cake card stock that I embossed with the Petals a Plenty EF. The layer across the bottom is some DSP from the Well Worn paper pack. I matted that with more cherry cobbler card stock that I used the scallop edge punch across the bottom. I tied on some very vanilla seam binding ribbon and tied a pretty bow. I added a few basic rhinestones to the top corners and under the sentiment.  The center of the poinsettias are made with some of the small basic pearls that I colored with a yellow  permanent  marker. 

I always want to finish the inside too:

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog 

to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun  challenge.

I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Paper Players Sketch Challenge

Happy Monday Peeps! Hope you all had a great weekend!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch challenge this week on the The Paper Players Blog.

I started my card out with a base of Crumb Cake card stock. I followed that up with some riding hood red card stock and the DSP I used is from the Stampin Up "Letters to Santa" paper pack.
The strip across the bottom is some crumb cake that I embossed with the square lattice EF and is matted with some early espresso card stock that has be punched along the bottom with the lace edge punch.
The angled piece is some more of the Letters to Santa DSP and is also matted with the early espresso card stock.
The main image is from the Stampin Up "Beautiful Season" stamp set. I stamped onto white card stock with black stazon and colored with my aqua painter and ink pads. I shaded and splattered the  image using crumb cake and early espresso ink. I cut the ovals and scallop ovals with my nesties.

I wanted to use some ribbon across the bottom and was going to use some crumb cake seam binding ribbon but when I got my spool out, it had almost none left. So I started looking around for some other to use and came across all the wide striped ribbon I have and almost never use. I like the wide striped ribbon and LOVE it when I see it on other peoples cards but I have a hard time using it. I have a bunch, full rolls that have never been used, I bought spools of every color that was on the clearance rack a few months back. So I talked my self into taking the leap and using some, what do you think, to much stripes going on? I may change it up and try some satin ribbon, I do love the satin ribbon so much.
The sentiment on here is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set and I added some silver pearls in the corners to finish it off!

Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

SC359....Merry

Happy Thursday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch challenge on  Splitcoaststampers.

When I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to use some snowflakes down the side for the square elements on the sketch, no surprise there alot of people used snowflakes if you take a look in the sketch gallery you will see that. I also reached for my new favorite stamp set, Stampin Up's "A Beautiful Season". I love the main image in this set, the holly leaves and little chickadee. They are so easy to watercolor and make a really beautiful Christmas or Winter type card. 

I used basic gray card stock for the base of the card and then followed that with some basic black and then another piece of basic gray that I embossed with the square lattice EF. I embossed a piece of real red card stock with the Snow Burst EF and added it. The snow flakes are cut from the Northern Frost Die strip. the main image is matted with real red and basic black. I added some silver pearls to the snow flake centers and to the corners of the card. I first thought I would stamp my sentiment onto the min image piece but I smeared it a bit when I stamped so I just went with a little flag.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

CC347....bright & beautiful

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the color challenge today on Splitcoaststampers.

The colors are Always Artichoke, More Mustard and Bravo Burgundy with the desert option to put a bird on it!

I was stalking the gallery waiting to see the colors for the challenge today and when it came up and i saw the desert option I knew right away I wanted to use this set again. I love the main image from this set, "A Beautiful Season" from Stampin Up.

I stamped the image with black stazon onto some white card stock and colored with my aqua painter, I used artichoke for the leaves, light on the edgers and a bit darker in the middle. I used Burgundy for the berries and the bird is colored with basic bray and crumb cake. I used some more mustard on the birds feet and beak. The stem is colored with some soft suede. I outlined the entire image with some crumb cake, I like the vintage feel that gives.

The base of the card is Always Artichoke and then the next layer is Bravo Burgundy that I embossed with the square lattice EF. I matted the main image with More Mustard card stock. I used some always artichoke seam binding to make the bow and added a piece of crochet lace trim to the bow as well. I used some basic pearls in two corners and called it done.

Well, that is all from me, thanks so much for stopping by and
HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

OCC....Fancy Folds

Happy Saturday Peeps, 

It is time for another Our Creative Corner Challenge. 

This week our hostess is the fabulous Tui Nathan from Stampin-Time. Her challenge for us is:

Create a card that uses a Fancy Fold.  

There are so many different types of folds out there, a lot of which I have seen, loved and even saved to do on a rainy day … but, never got around to doing! 

I decided to make a Center Step Card using the tutorial Splitcoaststampers. I think this qualifies as a fancy fold don't you? It has some folds and some cutting involved but the tutorial makes it really easy.

 I knew I wanted to use the Stampin Up "A Beautiful Season" stamp set for my main image. The base of this card is large, it is 5-1/2 x 5-1/2 square and I used chocolate chip card stock.

The DSP I used is from the "Letters to Santa" paper pack from Stampin Up.

The main image is stamped with black stazon onto white card stock. I colored with my aqua painter and ink pads. I added the sentiment with Early Espresso ink, the sentiment is from the Bells & Boughs stamp set.

I thought the sides need a little something so I cut a couple of snowflakes from the Northern Frost die strip and added one on each side with a pearl to the middle.

I added some old olive grosgrain ribbon across the bottom and tied a bow. I tucked a punch edge under the ribbon made with the lace edge border punch and white card stock. Finished it off with two basic pearls in the upper corner of the main panel.

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun  challenge. I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Another Christmas in July

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card made with the new Stampin Up stamp set called "Beautiful Season". OMG this is an awesome set. I so love this beautiful chickadee sitting on the holly branch. I do not have this set yet, but a friend does and she let me stamp a few images while I was at her house on Saturday. There is so much from the new cattie I want and this is near the top, but since it is a Christmas set I postponed ordering it on my first order so I could get other things and thought I would get this set later since Christmas is still a few months away. I will get it later but was grateful my friend Wendy let me stamp a few to play with til then. Thanks Wendy!

I stamped the image with black stazon onto some white card stock. I used an aqua painter to color it in. I used old olive, real red, basic gray, soft suede and crumb cake ink. I added a few dots around the outside with my chocolate chip marker.

The base of the card is Crumb Cake, but you can't see that, I ended covering it up with the basic black and basic gray. I embossed the basic gray with the square lattice EF. I added some real red satin ribbon and silver pearls, non SU, for the embellishments.

The sentiment is from the :Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set. I stamped with black stazon and punched out with the word window punch and used the modern label punch with real red to mat the sentiment.

Well, that is all from me today, I have new goodies scheduled to arrive today!!! :)

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki